skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Afaik those unified memory architectures are mostly neither cache coherent nor do they support virtual addresses efficiently (you have to trap into privileged code to pin/unpin the mappings) which means that the relative cost is lower than a dedicated GPU accessed via PCIe slots, but still to high. Only the "boring" old Bobcat based AMD APUs supported accessing unpinned virtual memory from the L3 (aka system level) cache and nobody bothered with porting code to them.

Other way around, bobcat was the era of “onion bus”/“garlic bus” and today things like apple silicon don’t need to be explicitly accessed in certain ways afaik.

https://www.realworldtech.com/fusion-llano/3/

https://www.anandtech.com/show/16226/apple-silicon-m1-a14-de...
That's actually just a bug: the x86 asm constraints were needlessly forcing the compiler to use rdx as the input register for the multiply instruction.

With that fixed, it's the same: https://godbolt.org/z/M571P371K

But after staring at this for a little while, I realized simply reversing the order of the fields in the dword struct will make the result from the multiply instruction already match the way 128-bit structs are returned in registers under the x86_64 calling convention! This is quite a bit better: https://godbolt.org/z/MbfG63vej

Also worth noting the asm makes nicer code on arm64: https://godbolt.org/z/7eas6s9vK

https://github.com/jcalvinowens/toy-rsa/commit/59ef9ea905dbd...
https://github.com/jcalvinowens/toy-rsa/commit/ceaa8a4dd0834...
It costs about 10 dollars to have a certified letter sent through an online service - that includes printing and being put into an envelope.

It costs a lot less if you don't need to get it certified.

So if your time is worth more than 10 dollars an hour, its is quicker for you to send a normal letter than waste time with their form.
Greenspun of "Greenspun's Tenth Law of Programming" has a weblog, interesting tidbit on landlords here:https://philip.greenspun.com/blog/2024/04/25/coronapanic-and...

....(of an acquaintance) He took the opportunity to refinance his properties at a 2 percent rate and also substantially raised the rents that he was charging (i.e., his costs fell and his revenue soared). He estimates that his property doubled in nominal value between 2019 and today. He raised rents by 50 percent.
"Google was accused of enacting a policy instructing employees to turn chat history off by default when discussing sensitive topics, including Google's revenue-sharing and mobile application distribution agreements."

They didn't ask employees to destroy evidence but to avoid retaining evidence in the first place. Not leaving sensitive information in logs, backups etc is quite reasonable, even if it would have been useful to justice here.
If the government wanted the entirety of google would be Boeinged tomorrow.

The reverse is not true.

There's power in information, but physical power trumps that.
Being able to privately discuss matters is apparently a freedom only afforded to personalities that are comfortable speaking voice in real-time.

The same policy but in the form of "discuss these things over the phone" would not just be unremarkable, it's the norm.

The failure to extend the same treatment to unlogged text chats is discriminatory to people with disabilities and different personalities. ... and it's at odd with the underlying principle that when you know you're subject to litigation you're required to retain records you created but you're not obligated to create new records.
why would you write a web browser just to avoid installing an off the shelf one? Seems weird but ok.

Maybe you are “not the average consumer”. But it generally seems like a disingenuous and bad-faith response to avoid challenging your (incorrect) assumptions.

Pretty typical for the topic at this point, unfortunately. The android folk have just veered off into “everyone gets their own version of the facts” territory, can’t count how many people have told me there’s no file browser or that you can’t compile your own apps in macOS etc. The end is all that matters, facts are fungible.

Epistemic closure, basically.
They don't actually care about safety, that's a lie, so compute and business strategy is the only thing stopping them.

SoRA is the same. It's not ready and it's too slow.
If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts; if you have the law on your side, pound the law; if you have neither the facts nor the law, pound the table.
Put some people in prison, like the CEO of Realpage and some of the larger property owners. Make it clear in the news what they did wrong and how it caused harm. Make sure the law is clear that this type of thing has criminal penalties. I am guessing none of that will happen. But not sure how you really correct it without criminal penalties.
hey, I think there is some misconception regarding the premium feature? Because the integration is open source and it is available to everyone. The linked blog post also says same:

> The new encryption feature is fully Open Source, available to everybody, and doesn’t depend on the Turso platform.
I like Windows 11. Windows 10 feels old in comparison, especially with many system settings living in Control Panel. I use a dev drive, I like my dark mode notepad and taskman, I love having a modern Terminal and winget, and frnakly I pay for Microsoft 365 because it's a pretty good value for the 5 other family members I've got on it.

RE: any arguments about ads and such... I don't see what's an ad? I disable copilot in my taskbar. It takes all of 10 seconds to remove the LinkedIn and other crappy shortcut (just shortcut, not full software mind you) from my start menu the one time a year (at best) I reinstall Windows. Yeah, there's OneDrive, but you can uninstall it unlike something similar on another platform like iCloud. And you know what? I can run applications from 25 years ago with practically no issue.
i'm sure they don't cost anywhere near that much, here's one for 7 dollars new even here in argentina found immediately upon searching https://www.mercadolibre.com.ar/radio-portatil-am-fm-parlant...

with some effort you can probably find one under a dollar new
Guaranteed uptime.

you are the guarantor but that's good enough.
If the algorithms are so good, why don't landlords in Houston use them to charge San Francisco prices?

I think it's possible that RealPage adds a few percentage points to rents, and that's a bad thing. 1% over a bunch of rentals is a lot of money and harm to renters and that's worth suing over.

That said, 1 or 2% here or there is no match for "supply and demand".
Make sure your users can run profiling tools! Specifically Nsight Compute needs containers with some elevated privileges. That would get you an easy win over vast.ai .
Not that I disagree with you, but since the is the most upvoted comment - had this happened in, say, Russia, people would say: "The bloody Putin's totalitarianism!". But in the US, well: "[...] every single person who's ever criticized Boeing is going to die". This is absolutely hilarious and deserves the best comment of the year award.
I'm horrible at stats, but is this saying that if I have 5 jars of pennies, and I guess the amount in each one. Then I find the average of all my guesses, and the variance between the guesses, then I can adjust each guess to a more likely answer with this method?
Chicken or egg? One zoologist's attempt to solve which came first
Having an algorithm literally setting prices and literally forbidding rental properties from setting lower prices seems like a real cause of problems too?

I agree there's a lot of other barriers to fixing housing! But the algorithmically-driven collusion here is off the wall crazy town. Zero accountability for what would have wrecked any entity doing the same a couple years ago.
A vape where he can control the nicotine and lower it progressively works well.
Start kinda high while he gets off cigarettes and lower it once he starts to think of cigarette smoke as less appetizing than before.
I found that nicotine is not the only addicting thing about cigarettes, and I don't mean just the habit, so vaping helps as an intermediate step.
no, I'm not thinking of that, I'm thinking of the fact that it is quite commonly pointed out that the earth-moon 2-body system rotates around a point 1000 miles below the surface of the earth (the center of the earth being 4000 miles below the surface); and I'm pointing out that if you are going to point that out about the earth-moon, it's even more interesting to point out the more dramatic situation regarding the sun-jupiter 2-body system where the point is outside of the sun.
That's me in the picture of the hearing. 40 homes there, that have taken years to build because of NIMBY neighbors.

That is the problem. Not Wall Street. Not some xenophobic "foreign buyers!". Not even short term rentals.

It's zoning and NIMBYs and on top of that now, interest rates.

The 'bogeyman' theories feel good because it means you don't have to face up to the reality of your neighors' NIMBYism. But they're wrong. It is your neighbors.
I hate writing job applications, so even if LLMs aren't good enough yet, at least they are a start.
Yes...it is too late for the companies that exist already.

No reason we cannot have a non profit counterargument to Realpage.

Issue with new laws IMHO is "...the more rules and regulations...the more thieves and robbers..." and it seems to be in the past that more regulations just helps those causing the problem.

The issue isn't that we need to remove the landlords...society needs to explain that they are not acting ethically. I would even be happy with just not giving handshakes and back pats to those who act in destructive ways.

The average renter in my area makes ~$35k/year...but the average realtor makes $135k (according to glassdoor). At some point this just pushes out the "average".
ELI5: why is there any expectation for corporations to keep chat logs or emails long term? Is there some legal requirement I don't understand?
Is the implication that only they can make the site?

I am confident there are plenty here who could whip a demo up in a weekend.
I have noted your feedback and I do acknowledge that documentation on virtual WAL trait can be improved.
Hahahaha! :) Sure, but if that's true isn't saying "delicate snowflakes" judging that? I mean, we should respect people's reasonable feelings right?

Otherwise that would be abusive. Shaming people for having feelings by calling them 'delicate snowflakes'? Part of the problem. Hahahaha! :) Otherwise that normalizes dismissing/minimizing people's feelings and saying 'oh it's not the abuse/shaming/humiliation that's the problem, it's how they feel about that that's the problem.' I mean, that's not good. That's like victim blaming, right? Hahaha! :)

I mean, me, as a man, I'm not afraid of women laughing at me. I like women laughing at me, that's good right? But I am afraid of them being cruel, lyin' about me, and lawfare: you know, alimony, that kind of stuff. Although, so far, I have a had lot of luck with many of the women in my life and I've no complaints about women in general. Tho those are some things to watch out for, I think - judging by the experience of others! Hahaha! :)

I mean it's catchy what Margaret Atwood says, but not sure how true that is. Kind of biased tho? Hahahaha! :) have a good one eh :)
It’s not meant to help the cattle, it’s meant to preserve profits by treating the cattle for a disease they only have because they’re kept in unsanitary and overcrowded conditions.

The loss of the towers of silence is a turducken of human incompetence.
very few cared about linux. it was mostly hd-dvd (later dvd) vs blu-ray.
In Wellington we still have the hills, but no awesome volcanoes :(
AFAICT there isn't anything preventing landlords from setting pricing lower than what RealPage recommends. That is just Propublica's weasily framing. In reality, it sounds like they're saying, if you want to get the results from our recommendations, you actually need to follow our recommendations.
I'm fine with suing that company. Even 1% in increased rents, at the margin, is a lot of money across a lot of rentals.

But the algorithm is simply not capable of creating San Francisco prices in Houston, because "supply and demand" carries more weight than the algorithm.
Shell and other multinational companies are not philanthropic, they are prepared to leverage their considerable means to extract the maximum value.

I've lived in some of the poorest countries in the world. The narrative told to the communities going in is that everyone will get rich. The reality is very few people have the skills to take well-paid jobs. The only people to get moderately rich are the local government officials. When the resources dry up, the community is often left to deal with an environmental disaster.

Despite having seen this play out so many times, I would still consider myself utilitarian and to some extent libertarian. Unfortunately, when people are living in poverty, they are in an incredibly vulnerable position at the bargaining table. They will not able to negotiate for a fair compensation. In this situation the assumptions of a free and fair market do not hold.
Technically that's discoverable, too. Just needs to be a national security matter.
Within words of the start of the article you already know the pointlessness of this “age old conundrum”… the egg came long before chickens, and long before the dinosaurs the chickens derived from. The egg preceded anything remotely resembling a chicken by an absolutely ludicrous number of years.
162MHz is VHF, shortwave is much lower frequency (and longer wave).

More or less all US car owners already own a VHF radio. Extending it from 88-108MHz up to 162MHz would be fairly trivial.
he meant that any evidence we have puts a ... "floor" on how old something is, but it doesn't rule out it being even older. He wasn't using "we think" to mean "we imagine", he was using it to mean "we believe from evidence"
Disclaimer: not a fan of "Open"AI

Everyone could say anything about open source models, but they're comparing themselves to what OpenAI released a year ago. They haven't shown all of their cards yet and they have a decent moat already in place; some say they have no moat, I disagree, they have one of the best moats possible which is brand awareness.

Sora on its own could bring in billions in revenue; an open-source Sora will take at least another year, if not two, to come out. Then more time until it can run on commodity hardware. An open source model that only runs in a dedicated H100 is actually less useful than a closed model behind an API call; not to detract from open source, I think it's the way to go but I'm just being pragmatic and realistic. There's a reason why MS Office is still the top productivity app in the world, even though dozens of open source alternatives exist.
the cloudpilotemu project can use this host browser as a proxy thing so you can sync your emulated (in the browser) to your PC as well as give the emulator internet access, likely one way to have a browser in a browser.

I didn't try it out, though, i just read it in the documentation.
"where everything will be packed aboard a chartered Boeing 747 cargo"

whew, thank goodness it's not a 737MAX /s

"where its builders have put it through final tests"

I'm curious how they test a sensor like this. I'd assume it's designed for a single "lens". Do they use some version of a standard test chart? Are they just checking that each pixel is receiving photons and turning them into signals? Curious minds want to know.
I don't know this guy personally but I like his code.

I particularly like his JSON library [0], option parsing libraries [1], branchless UTF-8 decoder [2], lock-free stack [3], and trie library [4].

I also like his taste in licensing (all of the above is released under The Unlicense)

[0] https://github.com/skeeto/pdjson

[1] https://github.com/skeeto/optparse and https://github.com/skeeto/getopt

[2] https://github.com/skeeto/branchless-utf8

[3] https://github.com/skeeto/lstack

[4] https://github.com/skeeto/trie
This is not a property of stable coins, but of permissioned stable coins only. Decentralized permission less stableclins like DAI etc. are beholden to none.
This is the guy in your physics class who could prove Einstein wrong if you could just help him with the math.
"Uplift labor ... movements "

You can't do that if there are no jobs. And 10 dollars a day is hell of a job in those places.
Sadly we live in an era in which mass wiretapping, automated transcription and flagging, and parallel construction are not unreasonable concerns.
For stone age tools it would have been less for the aesthetics and more for: what else are you going to use? You can use stone to hit stone, but depending on the stones and the intent (and the technique), achieving the right results might be difficult or impossible.

Other options: you don't have metal really. You could grind stuff, maybe, but that's a _lot_ of effort.

So soft faced hammers should have had a place just by virtue of lack of other good options. My understanding is that for several things it'd be a lot of effort but relatively low technique required and relatively low risk of just cracking/smashing whatever you're trying to work on into uselessness.
There's an existing idea called shared dictionary compression. Everybody pre-agrees on some statistical priors about the data, and you use them to improve the compression ratio.

This is just the gigascale version of that.
right, most tabs are suspended. i also use an extension that automatically suspends inactive tabs, so i don't have more than 20 or 30 tabs that are not suspended.
>but there seems to be a shortage of sites which tell potential landlords "what the average renter can afford".

does it matter? there will always be an above average renter. it's just a matter if the landlord can be patient enough to find them
Sorry, did I commit fraud by discussing business over dinner without a stenographer present?

If you’re ordered to retain communications, sure. And in a civil court, it’s fair to conclude adversely if a party’s messages disappear suspiciously. But by the government? No.
Ahh… welcome to the middle of Dunning-Kruger, pull up a chair and grab a coffee. Time to start climbing back up the curve.
You can try out the Cat in emulation from the comfort of your browser: https://archive.org/details/canoncat
The polish of OpenAI stuff when released has been quite mature since gpt4 or even 3.5.

They are no doubt sitting on ultra polished stuff. When you are the tip of the arrow though and the cutting edge itself it might not be as efficient but does it ever show you things you can’t unsee.

When OpenAI can launch a video thing a day after because it’s ready to go. I am less and less skeptical e dry time they ship because the quality of the first version isn’t sliding back wards even in different areas like video.

Maybe releasing it is strategic, or releasing it also requires supporting it infrastructure wise and then some. That might be a challenge.

My feeling is the next model of an k between may have massive efficiency and performance improvements without having to go quantum with brute forcing it.

Meanwhile others who are following what OpenAI has done seem to be able to optimize it and make it more efficient whether it’s open source or otherwise.

Both are doing important work and I'm not sure I want to see it as a one winner take all game.

The way AI vendors are responding suddenly to another’s launch feels like they are always ready to launch and continue to add functionality to it that could also ship.

It reminds me of when Google spent a billion dollars advertising bing had a billion pages indexed. Google stayed quiet. Then when the money was spent by Microsoft, Google simply added a zero or two to their search page, when they used to list how many pages they have indexed. They were just sitting on it already done, announcing it when it’s to their benefit.
Fired Microsoft engineer takes up goose farming
That’s what I figured, too, and then I joined Truth Social to that a peek behind that curtain. It really is just all pro Trump people posting pro Trump stuff and upvoting everyone else’s stuff. There’s little discussion, debate, or internet-typical arguing. It’s everyone just +1’ing each other in the weirdest, most boring echo chamber I’ve seen online.
this is a very cool library, but it needs someone to figure out a good way of validating 64 bit hash functions.
I just read the article and it doesn’t directly answer the question.

Why would you be allowed to have unrecorded conversations in the office? Doesn’t that show the same intent?
>Why are any of us okay with humans being "disposable" anywhere on Earth?

Because being a disposable worker beats being unemployed.
I've heard the idiom of "knive policy", sharp at the bottom, dull at the top.
You can see the difference in Austin in private equity owned apartments vs random houses or apartment buildings that predate that.

The private equity development apartments are all in on RealPage and are in absolute lockstep with one another (they also have a whole host of dark patterns which I won't get into). So, it's not enough to have development, you have to have development that isn't private equity driven.

The stuff that has a single owner is several hundred dollars cheaper and the differential is increasing. Some of this is age of the aprtment complex, but the age differential has been pretty small in areas where the university students drive demand.

It's not just RealPage. For example, being able to eat the rental loss of unoccupied apartments is because private equity plays financing games and is willing to give up huge amounts of cash inflow in order to avoid paying any amount of cash outflow.

However, RealPage is one of the legs of the stool.
Can someone explain why this is cool and what it’s used for?
Not to take anything away from the story’s content, but fuck that mobile site is bad, content jumping around made it virtually unreadable.
I disagree.

a) A year after GPT-4 set the bar, it's still the best model, despite everyone else not having to do it first. Just copy, and just software. And that's not for lack of trying by every other viable prime player on the planet with unprecedented acceleration.

Imagine any other piece of software, where the incumbent has a mere 2-3 year head start, in which they had to work out the entire product that everyone else, despite just having to copy and pressing the pedal through the floor is struggling just trying to catch up with.

b) The current models including GPT-4 are so bad. The few billions can be made by just by continue playing this game of improvements for a few years and getting better each year. I think people are wildly confused about how big this market is going to be when that happens. They are not squeezing hosting or compute. They are squeezing intelligence. Intelligence is the entire economy. The notion that there would ever not be room for multiple things here, maybe through size or specialisation or cost (as with all other intelligence), and that a few billion dollar are a big deal, is so strange to me.

c) The game will at some point, be mostly about infra and optimization. People come to the conclusion that's a problem for the incumbents, when our entire industry is mostly about infra and optimization. AWS is infra and optimization. I think even the average hn tinkerer understands that therein lies a proposition that's not exactly equivalent to "just rent a few servers and do it yourself".
Zebra remains on the loose in Washington state, officials close trailheads
you don't need a skilled bicycle mechanic to ride a bike the way you need a skilled car mechanic to drive a car. i've rebuilt a volkswagen engine, but i still wouldn't dare to try to do all car repairs myself on anything more complex than a model t. bike repair is something anyone can do—badly, yes, but not so badly it's not a viable option
What Meta is doing is very nice and differentiates them.

I also hope that it ought not change if it became more palatable to not be open.